This Saturday will be the last series of the year for my Twin Cities Thunderchickens. No, I won’t be duking it out for a playoff spot. We’ve got last place pretty much sewed up, thank you. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be a little tension when I play the…
This satirical piece on The Sportsman’s Daily about a boy finding a dice baseball game in his dad’s attic is a somewhat funny in a bittersweet way for us APBA fans. “It was kind of cute for a while,” said Jose. “It brought back some terrific memories like trading…
Yes, it’s 15 degrees out there and blowing snow (at least where we’re at… we’re not as lucky as our friends in the OAPBA) but the Illowa APBA League, is finishing up its last month of the season. As usual, our playoff race is coming down to wire. we have…
In time for the new year, Rotoprofessor has just come out with their 2010 MLB rankings by position. I believe I directed you their rankings last year. When it comes to trading and drafting within our leagues, I find rankings helpful. and I think they do as good of a…
The APBA Blog gets an email regarding replay schedules: Dear APBA Blog, I have been playing APBA Baseball since I was probably 7 years old. My dad passed it along to me and I have never grown bored or tired of the basic game and love just tossing…
In the late 80s, our basic game league had a manager who in addition to keeping the requisite league pitching and hitting stat categories, also kept fielding stats. We all thought he was a little nuts but since he was in charge of putting out the newsletter, we got to…
Hallelujah! Just in time for Christmas, Steve Guthrie has once again come out with APBA cards for the NCAA. Above you see secondbaseman Josh Parr who plays for my beloved Illini. You can go to Steve’s web site to download the cards in excel file format. Once downloaded, you can…
I ran across this charming piece of Illowa APBA League history and couldn’t pass up the chance to share it. It’s an article written in 1979 for our monthly newsletter. Tedd Mallasch wrote it after winning the league championship that year. Charming because it’s a handwritten note, something we rarely…
Our commissioner, Mike Bunch, is the most prolific APBA baseball player I know. Between arbitrating and chaperoning the Illowa APBA League, he finds time to replay full seasons of 1960s baseball… and finishing them, too. It wasn’t too long ago when Mike completed his 1968 season replay. He went right…
Last week, I holed myself up in a coffee house for a few days and reworked our league’s website. Here is the result. It’s been a few years since I’ve paid any serious attention to it so this was definitely overdue. I decided to use WordPress (which is what I…